Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 2

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February 2: Candlemas (Western Christianity); Groundhog Day in Canada and the United States.

• 962 - Pope John XII crowned Otto the Great as Holy Roman Emperor, the first in nearly 40 years.
• 1848 - The Mexican-American War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, granting the United States the Mexican Cession.
• 1925 - In the 1925 serum run to Nome, medical supplies to combat an outbreak of diphtheria reached Nome, Alaska on dog sleds, inspiring the annual Iditarod race across Alaska.
• 1943 - World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad concluded with 91,000 tired and starving German soldiers taken captive by the Red Army.
• 1990 - President F.W. de Klerk (pictured) declared the end of Apartheid in South Africa.

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